{"id":900,"date":"2010-07-14T09:57:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T09:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2010-07-14T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T09:57:09","slug":"india-chaat-sweets-indian-cuisine-berkeley-restaurant-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2010\/07\/india-chaat-sweets-indian-cuisine-berkeley-restaurant-review\/","title":{"rendered":"India Chaat &#038; Sweets Indian Cuisine &#8211; Berkeley &#8211; Restaurant Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my friend Lola and I found ourselves in Berkeley, browsing through art supplies at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickblick.com\/\">a store<\/a> on University Ave., when we decided it was time for lunch.  <b> India Chaat &#038; Sweets Indian Cuisine<\/b> was just across the street from the store we were at, it got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/india-chaat-and-sweets-indian-cuisine-berkeley\">OK reviews<\/a> in Yelp and it offered a lunch buffet.  After trying it, we have to agree that this is an OK place to have lunch &#8211; not great, not bad, a bit expensive, but fine.<br \/>\nIndia Chaat has two small dining rooms and its lunch buffet offers limited choices.  In addition to daal, rice and naan, there were a couple of vegetarian choices, a lamb curry, chicken tikka massala and chicken tandoori.  I partook of the last three (with rice and naan).  The lamb curry was quite good, the bone-in lamb was tender and the sauce had a pleasant acidic flavor to it.  It wasn&#8217;t outstanding but pretty good.  The tikka massala sauce was also perfectly alright &#8211; unfortunately the chicken was so dry as to make it nearly inedible.  The chicken tadoori was quite good, moist enough and flavorful.  Lola who tried the vegetarian offerings wasn&#8217;t too impressed, her general opinion was that they were fine &#8211; but not great.<br \/>\nThe biggest disappointment might have been the cokes we ordered (a regular and a diet).  They both had an off taste, the diet was pretty much undrinkable.<br \/>\nLunch wasn&#8217;t particularly cheap.  It came out to about $25 for the two of us after tax and tip &#8211; I&#8217;d expect something considerably better for that sum, in particular in Berkeley.  I&#8217;d probably wouldn&#8217;t return.<br \/>\nIndia Chaat &#038; Sweets Indian Cuisine<br \/>\n824 University Avenue<br \/>\nBerkeley, CA<br \/>\n(510) 704-1200<br \/>\nNote: You can get a gift certificate for India Chaat at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.restaurant.com\/\">restaurant.com<\/a> (remember to always google for restaurant.com deals before buying &#8211; currently you can get a $25 GC &#8211; minimum purchase and restrictions apply &#8211; for $3 by using the code FRESH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my friend Lola and I found ourselves in Berkeley, browsing through art supplies at a store on University Ave., when we decided it was time for lunch. India Chaat &#038; Sweets Indian Cuisine was just across the street from the store we were at, it got OK reviews in Yelp and it offered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}